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OzAsia Festival’s 2025 Weekend of Words program released

Tuesday, 16 September 2025
OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words has released its full program, running 7–9 November 2025 in Adelaide. The 2025 festival will include 24 free events featuring 56 Asian and Asian Australian...

Sunshine Coast Fiction Festival 2025 program released

Tuesday, 16 September 2025
The Sunshine Coast Fiction Festival has announced its 2025 program, running 7–9 November in Bokarina. Among Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand authors headlining the event are TL Swan, Candice Fox,...

PRH acquires Madden’s first adult novel

Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to debut adult novel Quite the Pair from author Tobias Madden, via a deal brokered by Claire Friedman at InkWell Management...

HarperCollins acquires Richell memoir

Tuesday, 16 September 2025
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to An Ocean and a Day, a memoir from Hannah Richell, via Sarah Lutyens at Lutyens & Rubinstein Literary Agency. An Ocean and a Day...

Danger Awards 2025 winners announced

Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Winners of the 2025 Danger Awards have been announced. From shortlists released in August, the winners in each category are: Debut crime fiction A Town Called Treachery (Mitch Jennings, HarperCollins)...

Arts NT Fellowships 2025 recipients announced

Monday, 15 September 2025
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced six recipients of the 2025 Arts NT Fellowships. Supported in partnership with Arts NT, each of the six recipients will receive a two-week...

Queenscliffe Literary Festival 2025 program announced

Monday, 15 September 2025
Queenscliffe Literary Festival (QLF) has announced its 2025 program. Under the theme ‘Rising Tides’, the festival will run 17–26 October 2025 on the lands of the Wadawurrung people. Among local...

Chan wins 2025 Paragraph Fellowship

Monday, 15 September 2025
Time to Write has announced Grace Chan as the 2025 winner of the $25,000 Paragraph Fellowship for ‘Caretakers’, a speculative fiction novel. Born in Malaysia, Chan is a psychiatrist living...

Ngaio Marsh Awards 2025 finalists announced

Monday, 15 September 2025
The shortlists for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Awards, which celebrate Aotearoa New Zealand crime, mystery or thriller writing, have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: Best novel...

Tunion wins inaugural Antigone Kefala Memorial Prize

Monday, 15 September 2025
Giramondo Publishing has announced Carielyn Tunion as the inaugural recipient of the Antigone Kefala Memorial Prize. Carielyn Tunion/ᜃᜇᜒ/林嘉蓮 (she/they) is a writer, videopoet, educator and cultural worker with a background...

Richell Prize 2025 longlist announced

Thursday, 11 September 2025
Hachette Australia, in partnership with the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), has announced the longlist for the 2025 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. Chosen from 775 entrants, the 20 longlisted writers...

NewSouth acquires Hausheer’s nonfiction

Thursday, 11 September 2025
NewSouth Publishing has acquired world rights to The Vanishing Wild: Australian Wildlife and the Fight Against Extinction by science writer Justine E Hausheer, via literary agent Martin Shaw. The Vanishing...

Myint wins 2025 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award

Thursday, 11 September 2025
James Cook University’s (JCU) Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) has announced Khin Myint as the winner of the 2025 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award for Fragile Creatures: A...

Le Roy to leave Creative Australia

Thursday, 11 September 2025
Karen Le Roy is leaving Creative Australia. Le Roy has been with Creative Australia for 14 years, most recently as manager, international arts investment where, among other projects, she oversaw...

Bundyi acquires Lawrie’s picture book

Thursday, 11 September 2025
Bundyi Publishing has acquired world rights to Bella’s Journey, a Swan Lake picture book retelling by Rowena Lawrie. ‘With themes of duality, identity, and transformation through the lens of a...

Blak & Bright and Magabala Books announce the First Stories Collective

Wednesday, 10 September 2025
Blak & Bright and Magabala Books have announced the establishment of the First Stories Collective. The collective will support Creative Australia as the delivery partner in providing services to Aboriginal...

Australian Political Book of the Year Award 2025 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 10 September 2025
The 2025 Australian Political Book of the Year Award shortlist has been announced. Chosen from a longlist announced in August, the shortlisted titles are: The Chairman’s Lounge (Joe Aston, Scribner) Mean...

HarperCollins acquires Orgias’ debut crime novel

Wednesday, 10 September 2025
HarperCollins Publishers Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Teeth Kicker, the debut crime novel by Glenn Orgias, in a deal brokered by Jeanne Ryckmans of Key People Literary Management. ‘Set on...

Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship to end in 2026

Wednesday, 10 September 2025
The Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship will conclude in 2026. In a joint email from the Hazel Rowley Fellowship committee and Writers Victoria, organisers said, ‘It is with some sadness, but...

Queensland Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 9 September 2025
The shortlists for the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance ($30,000) Australian Gospel:...

Meanjin archive to be ‘made available for free’

Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Literary journal Meanjin will make its complete archive available online for free from February 2026, according to a post made to the journal's social media pages. This follows news late...

Books for Cooks named ‘2025 Legend’

Tuesday, 9 September 2025
The Melbourne Food & Wine Festival (MFWF) has inducted Books for Cooks bookshop owners Tim White and Amanda Schulze to its Legends Hall of Fame in the Communicators, Educators category....

Davitt Awards 2025 winners announced

Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Sisters in Crime has announced the winners of the 2025 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The winning titles in each category, chosen from shortlists announced...

Queenstown Writers Festival announces 2025 program

Tuesday, 9 September 2025
The Queenstown Writers Festival (QWF) has announced its 2025 program, running 30 October to 3 November 2025 in Queenstown, Aotearoa New Zealand. Local guests headlining this year’s festival include Nalini...

Story Factory announces ambassador program

Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Story Factory has announced its inaugural ambassador program. Six ambassadors joining the organisation are: Julia Baird Benjamin Law Zindzi Okenyo Debra Oswald Amy Thunig-McGregor Jennifer Wong. The ambassadors will amplify...